gendernihilistanarchocommunist:
White nationalists generally don’t want to look like characters out of American History X anymore. Fashion choices at the convention ranged from Ruby Ridge to Mad Men, but most of the people there looked like you might run into them on Capitol Hill or in the U-District. That said, there is a type. According to my observations, the standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in the tech industry or is going to school to work in the tech industry. “You’re also a coder? Do you mind if I send you something I’ve been working on?” I heard that more than once.
“That movie Hidden Figures was bullshit,” a guy dressed like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski said out of nowhere. “We never went to the moon, Stanley Kubrick faked all of it.” Water almost squirted out of my nose and it was the closest I came all night to breaking character.
“ Much bleaker is Dr. Johnson’s Seattle-suitable, “secret agent” racism plan. Basically, white nationalists meet in secret at conventions like Northwest Forum while paying “lip service to diversity” at their day jobs. They move into positions of power where they can hire other racists and keep non-whites from getting into the company. Two years ago, this method would have seemed like a total joke, but these guys really do mostly work in tech, and they were doing a lot of networking. When talking about the people he has counseled on the “secret agent” method, Dr. Johnson has written that they include “college professors, writers, artists, designers, publishers, creative people working in the film industry, businessmen, and professionals, some of them quite prominent in their fields.” ”
I wonder when liberals are going to stop pretending racists are just a bunch of rural rednecks and start taking a serious approach in combating racism. And conservatives are outraged whenever they perceive an “Inquisition” like “you can’t hold conservative views anymore in your job:(” gee I wonder why my guy.
Guys please listen and heed this because its super fucking important
I just posted this on Facebook, too, partly because it’s important, but mostly because a few months ago someone I know who graduated from my philosophy grad program and who I had thought was a reasonable human being posted a blog entry from Slate Star Codex, a libertarian blog (!warning lights!), about how gender parity in tech is an unrealistic goal because (it was claimed) women are just more likely to be interested in jobs/fields of study directly involving people while men are more interested in things and numbers, so you just can’t expect that many women to be into coding, and in the meantime everyone is going to start falsely accusing each other of creating a hostile environment for women to try to explain the persisting gender imbalance and it will turn into a “circular firing squad.”
As you might have guessed, I’m STILL PISSED and I keep posting articles about exactly how hostile the environment in tech really is, in hopes that SOMEONE will see them.
We Snuck into Seattle’s Super Secret White Nationalist Convention
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